Accomplishments:Through his acquaintance with General Beck – who and General
Franz Halder, came into contact with the military resistance circles. Fellgiebel was
significantly involved in the preparations for Operation Valkyrie, and tried on the day of
the attempt on the Führer's life, 20 July 1944, to cut Hitler's headquarters off from all
telecommunication connections, which he was, however, not fully successful in doing.

Quotes: (To
Hindenburg): "By appointing Hitler Chancellor of the Reich, you have handed over our
sacred German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I prophesy to you
this evil man will plunge our Reich into the abyss and will inflict immeasurable woe on
our nation. Future generations will curse you in your grave for this action."

Accomplishments:Bredow was, along with von Schleicher, among Adolf Hitler's bitterest
adversaries at the time of the Weimar Republic's downfall. Murdered in Berlin-Lichterfelde
on 30 June 1934 by SS men on the Night of the Long Knives

Accomplishments:Chief of Staff of the German Armed forces during the early years of the
Nazi regime in Germany. He tried hard to deter Hitler to lay hands-off Czechoslovakia. If
July 20, 1944 assassination attempt on Hitler would have succeeded, Beck would have been
appointed head of state. After the bombing failed to kill Hitler, Beck, realizing the game
was up, shot himself.

Accomplishments: After the Nazis came
to power in 1933, von Fritsch was appalled by their lawlessness and suppression of civil
liberties, but he did not openly criticize them. He was worried, however, that Hitler
would cause a war with the USSR. Among the officers present at the Hossbach
Conference in 1937 where Hitler made his aggressive intentions known, but was appalled
at this, as he knew the army was not ready. Himmler and Göring, accused the unmarried von
Fritsch, who had never been a womanizer and had preferred to concentrate on his army
career, of engaging in homosexual activity. He was forced to resign on 4 February 1938.

Accomplishments: In November, Groener advised Kaiser Wilhelm
II that he had lost the confidence of the armed forces and recommended abdication to the
monarch. In 1931 he also became Interior Minister, and favoured the banning of the Nazi
storm troopers (SA).